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An uncharacteristically heavy snowfall in the Middle East heralded a “day without death” in Syria this week – without death by fighting, at least. As pristine white snowflakes blanketed the war-torn territory, the refugees huddled in the brutal cold hardly…

An examination of the media furor over Iran’s legal crusade against former US marine Amir Hekmati, who was convicted of spying for the CIA after visiting the country to see his grandmother for the first time, reveals that it can…

The power vacuum created by the Ukraine crisis, termed a “revolution” by some media outlets, has raised alarm bells not just in Moscow and Washington, but in Tehran as well. Iranian parliamentarians have watched events in the eastern European country…